Return Styles: Pseud0ch, Terminal, Valhalla, NES, Geocities, Blue Moon. Entire thread

English Latin

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-30 14:55

Holy fuck I think I just devised a system for writing English with the Latin alphabet.
A-A
B-B
C-C
D-D
E-E
F-F
G-G
H-H
I-I
J-J
K-K
L-L
M-M
N-N
O-O
P-P
Q-Q
R-R
S-S
T-T
U-U
V-V
W-W
X-X
Y-Y
Z-Z
Same for lowercase letters.
Check this out this is fucking amazing.

Name: Anonymous 2010-03-31 9:16

1. If it's about one letter, one phoneme, wipe out Latin alphabet and make a Germanic alphabet.
If you are going to use Latin, use digraphs - easier and don't fuck with compatibility issues.

2. /Vr/ groups are tricky, you need to accomodate BBC English (wipes out /r/) and General American (r-colored vowel).

3. It is not needed to render /aj/ as <i>, like tradicional orthography does, but I think it works somehow - it's related to the short-i.

4. Do not treat schwa as a phoneme, all dialects have different neutralization tactics.

My bet - all the examples are in oldspelling.

P T K - <Pill>, <Till>, <Kill> - don't care about <Pit> and <sPit> difference, they're the same phoneme.

B D G - <Bet>, <DuDe>, <Get> - <g> only in hard (Give) form, never in soft (Gim). BTW, this corrects an error: English got this bad spelling habit from French, but it's not in English history softening of /g/ and /k/.

F TH S SH - <Fish>, <Sir>, <Short> - <s> is /s/ (hard), not like <eaSy>. EXCEPTION: plural and genitive are marked with <s> always, even if it's realized as <z>. This include potatos, tomatos, dishs... for TH, see below.

V DH Z ZH - <Viel>, <Zebra>, <Genre>. ZH is needed, not only for pleazhure - this phoneme was always hidden in oldspelling. DH is another hidden phoneme - TH is as <THink>, DH is as <THe>.

[+ incoming]

Newer Posts
Don't change these.
Name: Email:
Entire Thread Thread List